Our School
Empowering tools, education, and insights for your health, longevity and optimal wellness!
Our Story
The Sparkle Well School is the culmination of decades of study, work and experience.
Sparkle Well School was founded in 2010 by Sally Mathrick. While practising in an integrative medicine setting, diving deep into the applications of Naturopathic medicine, inspired by yoga and motivated by environmental concerns, Sally created her first program for healthy weight management for women in 2010. This has evolved and been curated into Shape Your Menopause program.
In 2011, while writing the DIY Detox column for Wellbeing Australia magazine, Sally started formulating the 5-step Sparkle Cleanse model, which underpins 21-day Cleanse & Renew. As a columnist, Sally travelled the world to understand more about cleansing and detox. This lead her to experience many different forms of fasting, a traditional naturopathic practice, and included a supported, 8-day water fast. Sally presented scientific research articulating some of the profound processes and health effects triggered by the fasting state at professional conferences during 2018-19.
In 2021, one of her 3-day, solo, bush fasting experiences inspired Reset Yourself , as a way to help people shift towards nourishing ways of living. Sally still regularly fasts, and continues to learn from research particularly about fasting, longevity and the menopausal transition. These insights are culminated in Change Fast.
Having been raised in country Victoria, she is not unfamiliar with the patterns of alcohol consumption, the polar opposite of her work and practice!!! Alcohol free in 14-days provides a step-by-step path to untangle the cultural, social, physical and mental impacts of alcohol use, to find an empowered and health-giving path forward.
Health comes from tapping nature’s inherent, adaptive, harmony
Our Sparkle Well School programs show you step-by-step how to attune with vitality, even if you live in a city or man-made environment.
The first step is establishing the conditions for health to emerge.
Be guided to create these conditions, both internally and externally, to cultivate great health. You’ll learn how to shift your diet, activity, mindset and routine to ensure your body and mind have what they need to function well.
- Learn how to tonify specific weakened or imbalanced organs or body systems.
- Adopt supportive natural remedies, that could already be in your pantry or available at the supermarket. Get effective and reliable insights to apply herbal and nutritional medicine to optimise your health and resilience.
What We Bring To The Table
We help you harness the Healing Power of Nature – the Vis medicatrix naturae (as the Ancient Romans put it).
We value nature’s inherent, adaptive, harmonic power as the source of all healing. Sparkle Well School programs show you how, step-by-step to create and establish the conditions for great health to emerge. When we create the conditions for health, and provide additional support to elements in need, healing happens. First individually and then collectively.
You are an important part of our complex world.
We recognise that everyone belongs and influences our world, and believe strongly that one healthy person positively influences their network of life. We value connections with people and organisations working to create a flourishing, healthy world for now and future generations.
You have great human potential.
We have confidence in the potential of humanity, despite what the Newspapers tell us!
There is an individual genius inherent in everyone, and when we are healthy and well, we all have the capacity to foster emerging, regenerative ways of thinking and living, that create a healthier world. Sparkle Well School programs help individuals to clear out the dross and establish patterns of living, eating, resting, connecting and acting for a more fun future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide affordable, quality education, tools and resources that lead to optimal health for individuals, with collective wellbeing in mind. We specifically help women moving through menopause and beyond, to empower their informed decision-making and help them enjoy their unique journey. We know an empowered menopausal transition will pave the path to great health in post-menopause, as well as build confidence in those women to share their wisdom with the communities.
Our Philosophy
At Sparkle Well School, aligning, fostering and tapping into natural vitality is the foundation of everything we do. We are guided by the healing harmony of nature, interconnectedness, human potential and the principles of Deep Ecology, and aim to ensure our decisions, actions and offerings reflect these values.
Our purpose is to help individuals shine their innate light by providing education, tools and insights for healing, longevity and optimal wellness.
We aim to nurture authentic self-confidence and vitality for women moving through menopause and beyond, to contribute to the broader dialogue about women’s wellbeing and contribution to our collective future. We also prioritise being honest, finding flow, having fun, and laughing a lot (but not so much that one wets one’s pants).